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July 19, 2006

Bingley Inked OR

...'A Walk on the Wild Side Runs Amok'. His henna tattoo looks like it says: "土包子" (pronounced roughly "tou bao dz"). Thank God for John, who translates it to:

a pork bun made out of dirt
Sweet Jesus. That would have been tragic.

Posted by tree hugging sister at July 19, 2006 11:55 PM

Comments

"tou bao dz"

Great name for a chinese rapper...

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at July 20, 2006 08:03 AM

Might as well be his name, since "dz" doesn't rhyme with jack unless you're Snoop Dogg (which hardly makes it comprehensible, less mind 'English').

Posted by: tree hugging sister at July 20, 2006 08:07 AM

(Um, ths, don't tell your little bro, but we paid the guy to say it was henna when it was actually permanent, though he promised us the characters meant "pig shit.")

Posted by: Emily at July 20, 2006 09:20 AM

That may be the idiomatic meaning of "Pork bun made out of dirt." That's part of the fun of literally translating slang into and out of foreign tongues.

Posted by: Nightfly at July 20, 2006 11:01 AM